The horses, being cow-ponies, were of course as keen and as green as the players, and the game became a most dangerous one to take part in.

Still we kept on, no one was very badly hurt, and we had lots of glorious gallops--fast games in fact.
The word "polo" is derived from Tibetan pulu, meaning a knot of willow wood.

In Cachar, and also at Amarillo, we used bamboo-root balls.

The game originated in Persia, passed to Tibet, and thence to the Munipoories, and from the Munipoories the English learnt it.

The first polo club ever organized was the Cachar Kangjai Club, founded in 1863.
It may be remarked here that, hard as the riding is in polo, in my opinion it does not demand nearly such good riding as does the "cutting" of young steers.